RSS Place

A terminal-based collaborative pixel art application using Redpanda (Kafka) as the data store.

Usage

.env Setup

Requires environment variables for Redpanda connection:

• REDPANDA_BROKERS
• RP_SECURITY_PROTOCOL
• REDPANDA_USER
• REDPANDA_PASS

CLI Usage

pnpm start --username <your-name>

CLI Flags

• --username, -u <name> - Your username (required)
• --logfile <path> - File to write logs to (optional)
• --reset, -r - Reset state by reading from topic beginning (optional)

Keyboard Controls

• Arrow Keys / hjkl - Move cursor around the canvas
• Enter or Space - Draw a pixel at cursor position
• r/g/b - Cycle red/green/blue component by +1 (0→1→2...→255→0)
• R/G/B - Cycle red/green/blue component by +64 (0→64→128→192→255→63→127...)
• W - Set color to white
• C - Set color to black
• w - Brighten color (increase all RGB values by 1)
• c - Darken color (decrease all RGB values by 1)
• x - Set color to a random RGB value
• p - Eye dropper tool: set current color to the pixel color under cursor
• Ctrl+C - Exit the application

The bottom line shows your username, cursor coordinates, and current color with a color swatch.